THE AMERICAS
The latest Congressional online gambling hearing was a disaster for anti-online types; the DOJ broke up an illegal payment processing ring linked with BetOnline; hours after a New York judge granted the state attorney general’s injunction barring against FanDuel and DraftKings, an appeals court judge allowed the companies to keep operating in NY until the legality of their games can be further considered; daily fantasy sports activity fell for the seventh straight week; Florida’s governor reached a $3.1b gaming compact with the Seminole tribe; California cops broke up an illegal gambling ring at two card rooms; Loto-Quebec boosted payout percentages at its online sports betting product and attorney Johnny Jaswal said there was method in Loto-Quebec’s IP-blocking madness; Brazil took another legislative step toward legal online gambling; WSOP.com dealt with its first claim of illegal HUD use in Nevada and Marc Ladouceur joined Tatjana Pasalic in this week’s episode of Chats with Tats; tech theorist and TED Global speaker Tom Chatfield gave some tips and strategies on how to capture the attention of the right audience on mobile devices.
EUROPE
Tabcorp teamed with News UK on a UK-facing Sun Bets gambling site; PokerStars received a Danish sports betting license and said the three-day VIP player strike was much ado about nothing; York racecourse broke ranks with British racing’s new betting sponsorship rules; Federbet sued the Malta Football Association for casting aspersions on its motives; bdNation’s Michael Whelan said pay-to-mobile billing was online gambling’s future while Oxygen8 Group’s Kevin Dawson said Africa was ahead of Europe in its adoption of mobile payments; Nick Batsford explained why TipTV has succeeded while other tipster sites failed; Alexander Barr surveyed public reaction to Ukraine’s proposed gambling laws;
ASIA
An Australian academic was outed as bitcoin inventor Satoshia Nakamoto; Macau junkets are flying 25 flights per week to a Da Nang casino; China launched yet another crackdown on vice; ‘online’ gambling got underway in Sikkim betting shops; Sportech inked a pair of Asian race betting technology deals; New South Wales charged a raft of Aussie bookmakers with offering illegal gambling inducements while Australian bettors set new records for per capita gambling spending; a Thai army colonel was accused of running interference for an illegal gambling operation; Beijing prompted UnionPay to call out for the registration of the millions of its mobile point of service transaction devices.
